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...next day the mob came back for more. From balconies and rooftops, demonstrators showered roof tiles and bricks on the advancing lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...
...tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands like opening lotus flowers. The body as a whole was to have the absolute peace of nirvana - and the fiery energy of flame...
...qualities usually obscured by the percussive Prokofiev style. Even in the most frenzied and violent passages-notably during Sonata No. 6, when he flailed the keyboard with a clenched fist-Richter drew forth a tone that was warm instead of strident, as full of shadings as a guttering candle flame. Later in the week Richter offered programs including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, playing each one with the uncanny air of direct communication that he conveys better than any other pianist alive. Under Richter's hands, even Debussy's much-abused Clair de Lune looked like...
...well may be the ghastliest five minutes ever recorded on commercial film. The scene shifts rapidly from a shot of the Hiroshima museum, to some of the relics of the attack, to graphic sections of film taken in Hiroshima immediately after the bombing. Terrified men and women swim, in flame covered rivers; thousands of people, living and dead, huddle in makeshift hospital-shelters. Director Alain Resnais spares the viewer nothing--the camera methodically records all of the most gruesome effects of immediate radiation burn and lingering radiation sickness, and it is often a few moments before the viewer realizes...
...matchless cigarette. To be marketed in December by Continental Tobacco Co., it has a tasteless, odorless "flame tip," which ignites when scratched against the side of a pack...